124 NOTES ON THE DORSET FLORA. 



Verwood ; Woodlands ; Edmondsham. G. Arne ; Littlesea ; 

 Corfe Castle. C. acuta, L. D. Ditches beween Wareham and 

 the railway station. F. Stour valley from Shapwick downwards ; 

 East and West Moors Rivers ; Cranborne to Verwood by R. 

 Cran. C. limosa, L. F. Spongy bog near Waterloo, about half- 

 way between Poole and Broadstone, and near the railway, L. V. 

 Lester-Garland. This rare sedge has only one other station in 

 Dorset, and is equally rare in Hants, the only two counties in the 

 south of England in which it occurs. It next appears in Norfolk 

 and Suffolk on the east and Shropshire on the west. C. humih's, 

 Leysser. F. This very local sedge can now hardly be considered 

 rare in the eastern part of -the county, though it is strictly 

 limited to the chalk. It is in some abundance on Harley 

 Down ; Gussage Hill ; Week Street Down and Thickthorn 

 Down ; and occurs also on down near Blagdon Farm, Cranborne, 

 both in Dorset and over the border in Wilts. It may easily be 

 distinguished, at least w T hen the turf is rather dry, whether in 

 flower or not, by the bright green of its foliage. 



C, montana, L. F. Moist woodland, Edmondsham. This 

 rare species is only mentioned in the Flora (p. xi.) in a list of 

 plants found in Hants which are absent from Dorset. Being a 

 very rare and local sedge, it is the more satisfactory that our 

 county can now claim a station for it. There is happily a fair 

 quantity of this Carex scattered over a small area, safely 

 entrenched in stiff soil in the moist bushy situation that it 

 usually prefers, somewhat similar to its chief locality near 

 Brockenhurst. C. montana is known now for twelve or thirteen 

 counties, but is scarce, I believe, in all of them, being often 

 limited, as in Dorset, Hants, and Somerset, to one or two 

 localities. 



C. pilulifera, L. D. Ham worthy Junction ; Lytchett Minster; 



E. and N.W. of Wareham Station. F, Very frequent over the 

 whole heath district, from Edmondsham and Verwood to Poole ; 

 also Crichel ; Okeford Hill. G. Arne ; Corfe Castle ; Rempstone. 

 C. pallescens, L. D. East Morden towards Lytchett Matravers. 



F. Woods between Edmondsham and Verwood Station. C. 



